Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Classes "We hear of the gentlemen of title who, on occasion, came to the Colonies, and we hear of the gentlemen of wealth who helped to fit out the expeditions. But it is a simple fact . . . that an overwhelming majority of those who came to the Colonies . . . belonged to what our British cousins would, even today, call 'the lower middle classes...
...Zola, in time, come great fame, wealth, position and what he takes for contentment. Some years later, the young radical has become a fat and fussy literary lion. His greatest satisfaction is no longer tilting at literary and political windmills but the prospect of election to the august French Academy. While Cezanne, after dinner one night, is telling Zola that his head is as overstuffed as his stomach, L'Affaire Dreyfus is having its beginnings. The General Staff of the French Army, discovering that someone has been selling military secrets to Germany, looks around for a scapegoat, finds...
...their expensive clinic in remote Rochester, Minn, where they and the 400 doctors whom they employ treat more than 700 new sick people every day and where in a few weeks they expect to work on their 1,000,000th patient. Essentially the Mayo brothers care little for wealth. Although they charge every patient precisely according to national credit agencies' reports, one fourth of the Mayo patients are worth nothing and pay no fees. The Mayo Clinic is to be donated to some medical school when the brothers die. This probably will be the University of Minnesota...
...General Education Board to contribute $75,000 to the Progressive Education Association to test Secrets of Success next fall in a number of selected classrooms. Last week Experimenters May and De Bra were both on hand at 1600 Broadway, both confident that their reviewers have uncovered further unsuspected educational wealth. How schools and producers ought to divide the expense of editing and remaking the films for school projectors and setting up a national distributing agency, and what rentals should be charged, the present exploratory committee was not prepared...
...President Smythe lined his office with bookcases full of precious old directories, bound volumes of The Commercial & Financial Chronicle and railroad almanacs from 1862 on. The more he studied old security issues the more convinced he became that owners of many forgotten bonds held title to vast if watery wealth. And because out of Sleuth Smythe's capacious hat gratifying miracles sometimes popped, trustees and executors got in the habit of laying the contents of old tin boxes before Mr. Smythe's blazing blue eyes, red face and Edwardian whiskers. Mr. Smythe loved to talk, hated to give...